- Types Of Speech
- You can use portentous as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Portentous
- A 3 syllables adjective satellite and 10 letters with the letters e, n, o, p, r, s, t, and u, 6 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters en. Portentous starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters p, po, por, port, porte, and the ending characters are s, us, ous, tous, ntous, ..
- Definition
- Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
- School Grade
- Portentous is set as a sat word that starts with p, ends with s, 3 syllables, 4 vowels and 10 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Portentous in Pig Latin is said as "ortentouspay or ortentouspway".
- Unigram
- p | o | r | t | e | n | t | o | u | s
- Bigram
- po | or | rt | te | en | nt | to | ou | us
- Trigram
- por | ort | rte | ten | ent | nto | tou | ous
- Quadrigram
- port | orte | rten | tent | ento | ntou | tous
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- puffed up with vanity;
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner";
"overblown oratory";
"a pompous speech";
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek - of ominous significance
- of momentous or ominous significance;
"such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville;
"a prodigious vision"
Synonym | Definition |
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Academic | an educator who works at a college or university |
Adverse | in an opposing direction "adverse currents" "a contrary wind" |
Affected | acted upon influenced |
Aggrandized | |
Ailment | an often persistent bodily disorder or disease a cause for complaining |
Alarming | causing alarm or fear |
Alonep | |
Amazing | inspiring awe or admiration or wonder "New York is an amazing city" "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight" "the awesome complexity of the universe" "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville "We |
Amplified | |
Antic |
View all cognitive synonyms for Portentous
Anagram | Definition |
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Portentous | puffed up with vanity "a grandiloquent and boastful manner" "overblown oratory" "a pompous speech" "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek |
View English words with the unique letters used in portentous. Words With The Letters Enoprstu
Similar Word | Definition |
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Pretentious | intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat" |
Portentous Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With P
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters